The Leftists in Washington state tried to sneak through a law
that would allow law enforcement officials to annually inspect the homes of
assault-weapons owners to assure that they are "stored safely." Wonder
stored safely would be defined. If they are not stored safely would the
owner be fined or his weapon confiscated? Also, under the proposed law,
the owner could face a penalty of one-year in jail for refusing law enforcement
to inspect your home. While this is a clear violation of our second and
fourth amendment rights, it did not stop the Leftists from including it in the
Washington Legislature's gun law. This tipping of their intent makes it
apparent for all to see that the ultimate goal of the Leftists is to confiscate
the guns of citizens. Will they be caught the next time their hands are in
the cookie jar? Mistake in gun bill
could defeat the effort

One of the major
gun-control efforts in Olympia this session calls for the sheriff to inspect the
homes of assault-weapon owners. The bill’s backers say that was a mistake.

Forget police drones flying over your house. How about police coming
inside, once a year, to have a look around?

As Orwellian as that sounds,
it isn’t hypothetical. The notion of police home inspections was
introduced in a bill last week in Olympia.

That it’s part of one of the
major gun-control efforts pains me. It seemed in recent weeks lawmakers might be
headed toward some common-sense
regulation of gun sales. But then last week they went too far. By mistake,
they claim. But still too far.

“They always say, we’ll never go house to
house to take your guns away. But then you see this, and you have to
wonder.”

(Note to readers: The
link above is to a new version of SB 5737, which no longer contains the disputed
provision. The original version of the bill has been erased from the state’s Web
site, but here
you can see it as it was proposed.)

Responding to the Newtown school
massacre, the bill would ban the sale of semi-automatic weapons that use
detachable ammunition magazines. Clips that contain more than 10 rounds would be
illegal.

But then, with respect to the thousands of weapons like that
already owned by Washington residents, the bill says this:

“In order to
continue to possess an assault weapon that was legally possessed
on the effective date of this section, the person possessing shall ... safely
and securely store the assault weapon. The sheriff of the county may, no more
than once per year, conduct an inspection to ensure compliance with this
subsection.”

In other words, come into homes without a warrant to poke around. Failure to comply could get you up to a
year in jail.

“I’m a liberal Democrat ­ I’ve voted for only one
Republican in my life,” Palmer told me. “But now I understand why my right-wing
opponents worry about having to fight a government takeover.”

He added:
“It’s exactly this sort of thing that drives people into the arms of the
NRA.”

I have been blasting
the NRA for its paranoia in the gun-control debate. But Palmer is right
­ you can’t fully blame them, when cops going door-to-door shows up in
legislation.

I spoke to two of the sponsors. One, Sen. Adam Kline,
D-Seattle, a lawyer who typically is hyper-attuned to civil-liberties issues,
said he did not know the bill authorized police searches because he had not read
it closely before signing on.

“I made a mistake,” Kline said. “I frankly
should have vetted this more closely.”

That lawmakers sponsor bills they
haven’t read is common. Still, it’s disappointing on one of this political
magnitude. Not counting a long table, it’s only an eight-page bill.

The
prime sponsor, Sen. Ed Murray, D-Seattle, also condemned the search provision in
his own bill, after I asked him about it. He said Palmer is right that it’s
probably unconstitutional.

“I have to admit that shouldn’t be in there,”
Murray said.

He said he came to realize that an assault-weapons ban has
little chance of passing this year anyway. So he put in this bill more as “a
general statement, as a guiding light of where we need to go.” Without sweating
all the details.

Later, a Senate Democratic spokesman blamed unnamed
staff and said a new bill will be introduced.

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